Can you find the country hidden in the following sentence:
A popular newspaper printed part of a page that pointed out that port officials use a pencil, not a pen, when they prepare paper updates to their port reports.
A popular newspaper printed part of a page that pointed out that port officials use a pencil, not a pen, when they prepare paPER Updates to their port reports.
Hint
Try to find out where Mrs Umbrella lives first.
Answer
From, left to right:
#1 Mrs Scott - glass
#2 Mrs Umbrella - straw
#3 Mr Tidsley - brick
#4 Mr Wilshaw - wood
Reasoning
If we separate and label the clues, and label the bungalows #1, #2, #3, #4 from left to right we can see that: Mrs Scott's bungalow is somewhere to the left of the wooden one.The third one along is brick.Mrs Umbrella owns a straw bungalowMr Tidsley does not live at either end.Mr Tidsley lives somewhere to the right of the glass bungalow.Mr Wilshaw lives in the fourth bungalow.The first bungalow is not made from straw.
By (6) Mr Wilshaw lives in the fourth bungalow.
#1
#2
#3
#4 Mr Wilshaw
By (3), Mrs Umbrella owns the straw bungalow. By (7) it isn't #1, by (2) it isn't #3, so it must be #2.
#1
#2 Mrs Umbrella - straw
#3
#4 Mr Wilshaw
By (4), Mr Tidsley must therefore live in #3, which, by (2) is the brick bungalow.
#1
#2 Mrs Umbrella - straw
#3 Mr Tidsley - brick
#4 Mr Wilshaw
By (1), Mrs Scott's bungalow must be #1, and #4 must be the wooden one.
#1 Mrs Scott
#2 Mrs Umbrella - straw
#3 Mr Tidsley - brick
#4 Mr Wilshaw - wood
This leaves #1 as the glass bungalow.
#1 Mrs Scott - glass
#2 Mrs Umbrella - straw
#3 Mr Tidsley - brick
#4 Mr Wilshaw - wood
At a recent painting competition, the results were mislaid. Luckily, I remembered the following:
Emery's rendition of the Constable painting was not in last place. The person who painted the Monet was very successful and took first place. Glen only just managed to avoid last place and came third. Alex beat the person who painted the Taylor, and the person who painted the Van Gogh beat Drew.
Can you determine who painted what, and who won?
Answer # Name Artist
1 Alex Monet
2 Emery Constable
3 Glen Van Gogh
4 Drew Taylor Reasoning
The four entrants were: Alex, Drew, Emery, Glen.
The four artists were: Constable, Monet, Taylor, Van Gogh.
By (2), the Monet came first.
1 Monet
2
3
4
By (3), Glen came third.
1 Monet
2
3 Glen
4
By (1), the Constable can't have been last, so must have been second (as Emery painted it, and not Glen).
1 Monet
2 Constable
3 Glen
4
The Taylor was either third or fourth, either way, by (4) Alex must have won.
1 Alex Monet
2 Constable
3 Glen
4
By (4), the Van Gogh came third, leaving Drew in last place.
1 Alex Monet
2 Constable
3 Glen Van Gogh
4 Drew
Leaving Emery in second place, and the Taylor in last place.
1 Alex Monet
2 Emery Constable
3 Glen Van Gogh
4 Drew Taylor
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Puzzle 300
I have a bottle and a straw which cost me 60 pence. The bottle cost 10 pence more than the straw. What does each item cost?
